Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: Because you multiplied more than the nations that are all around you, and have not walked in My Laws, neither have kept My judgments, nor have done according to the judgments of the nations all around you;

You have multiplied your dead in this city, and you have filled its streets with the dead.

You have built your high place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty to be despised, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and have multiplied your fornications.

You have also whored with the Egyptians, your neighbors great of flesh, and have multiplied your fornications to provoke Me to anger.

Nor has Samaria sinned as much as half your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done.

and say: What is your mother? A lioness. She lay down among lions; she multiplied her cubs among young lions.

A plot by her prophets is in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they multiplied her many widows in her midst.

Yet she multiplied her fornications to recall the days of her youth, in which she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.

By your great wisdom and by your trade you have multiplied your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches.

So his height was lifted up above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the many waters, when he sent out.

So with your mouth you have boasted against Me, and have multiplied your words against Me. I have heard them.